Gerhard-Domagk Award for Life Sciences

The prize donated by Bayer AG should be awarded to the author of an outstanding PhD thesis which was prepared within a PhD program at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation and led to a successful conclusion of the PhD program. The author must be registered in a PhD program at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation.

The Founder

The prize is named after Professor Dr. med. Gerhard Domagk, 1895 to 1964, who, as head of the department for experimental pathology and bacteriology of the I.G. Farbenindustrie, Elberfeld (today Bayer AG), discovered the antibacterial effect of Prontosil within a systematic research program of new synthesized azo dyes in 1932 and thus initiated the development of antibacterial chemotherapy. Domagk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939 for this discovery and the development of the sulfonamides resulting from this. In the following years, Domagk stood not only for human medicine development of sulfonamides but also for the examination and introduction of this active ingredient group for the treatment of bacterial infections in veterinary medicine and initiated a number of research partnerships with the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover.

The Award Winners

2017

Nai-Huei Wu, PhD

Co-infection of porcine respiratory epithelial cells by influenza viruses and Streptococcus suis

2016

Kristin Elfers, PhD

Effect of dietary nitrogen and/or calcium reduction on intestinal calcium and phosphate absorption and renal water handling in young goats

2016

Dr. Nicole de Buhr

Interaction of Streptococcus suis with neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)

2015

Dr. Ariane Neumann

Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs): Mechanisms of NET introduction, bacterial NET degradation and host protection against bacterial degradation

2015

Dr. rer. nat. Jana Seele

Identification and functional characterization of IdeSsuis, the immunoglobulin M degrading enzyme of Streptococcus suis

2014

Dr. Jana Kirchhoff

Infection of differentiated epithelial cells by viruses of the bovine respiratory disease complex

2013

Sonja Bröer, PhD

Focal pharmacotherapy and neurotransplantation to treat pharmacoresistant epilepsies

2013
Ingo Spitzbarth, PhD

A morphological and molecular investigation on the spatio-temporal development of spinal cord lesions following spinal injury in dogs

2012
Andrea Theresia Feßler, PhD

Comparative molecular analysis of methicillin-resistant isolates of Staphylocossus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylocossus spp. from cases of mastitis among dairy cows

2012
Dr. med. vet. Florian Hansmann, PhD

The pathogenetic role of matrix-metalloproteinases in virus- induced mouse model of demyelinating diseases

2011
Dr. Sahar El Sayed El Sayed Ali Abd El Rahman

Comparative analysis of current infectious bronchitis virus isolates in primary cell culture systems

2010
Dr. Carlos Luna-Tortos

Evaluation of transport of entiepileptic drugs by efflux transporters (multidrug transporters) of the blood-brain barrier

2009
Dr. med. vet. Reiner Georg Ulrich

Histologische und molekularbiologische Untersuchungen zur De- und Remyelinisierung bei der murinen Theilervirus-Enzephalomyelitis

2008  
Dr. med. vet. Robert Kreutzer

GM¹-gangliosidosis in a canine model of type II GM¹-gangliosidosis: molecular pathogenesis, differential transcription of enzymes forming the lysosomal multienzymic complex and microsatellite based genotyping

2008 
Dr. med. Friedrich Schlesinger, PhD

Pharmacokinetic properties of selective and non-selective AMPA-receptor antagonists and their role in neuroprotection

2007 

Dr. Annika Herwig, PhD
Torpor and timing: Impact of endogenously controlled hypothermia on the circadian system of two hamster species

2007

Kristina Kadlec, PhD

Detection and organisation of antimicrobial resistance genes in Bordetella bronchieptica isolates from pigs

2006  
Alexander Maas, PhD

DIVA vaccine development against Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae infection

2005  
Matthias Ottinger, PhD

Functional Characterisation of ¥²-Herpesviral ofr73 Proteins and their Interaction with the Cellular Proteins BRD2 and BRD4
 

2004  
Holger Volk, PhD

Untersuchungen der Mechanismen von Pharmakoresistenz in verschiedenen Epilepsiemodellen
 

2003  
Ina Leverköhne, PhD

The Novel CLCA Gene Family of Multifunctional Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels: Genetic, Structural and Expression Studies in the Murine Model System

2002  
Thanongsak Mamom, PhD

Histologische und ultrastrukturelle Untersuchungen der Schweine- und Kaninchenkornea nach intrastromaler Femtosekundenlaserbehandlung

2002

Lars Mecklenburg, PhD

A new model of blood vessel remodeling: Hair follicles modulate the perifollicular vasculature by synthesizing key regulators of blood vessel homeostasis

2001

Roland Büsen, PhD

Interaktion zwischen Metabolismus und Transport von Benzo[a]pyren in der Gastrointestinalen Barriere